When we played Paris, the English punks would come over, and they got to know the French punks. There was some nice scenes in the back alleys.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The audience that surprised us the most was definitely Paris, when we played there last. They were just incredibly into us and we weren't expecting it at all.
Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation.
I went to Paris for a year in 1986 to study theatre; there was a lot of clowning around, buffoonery and fencing. It was then that my own style kind of blossomed.
When you live in Paris, and fashion is such a point of pride for the French, it's always around and you're very much exposed to it from an early age. It was always something I knew about and really liked.
When I went to Paris, I had a lot of ideas about it that were formed in the sort of ether that flows about if you watch too many recent Woody Allen movies or took French classes as a kid. I was certainly full of those.
The bands you like and know that are French are always outsiders in the French music industry - Daft Punk, Air.
I grew up watching a lot of French cinema.
I love Paris - it's one of my favorite cities - and so to shoot a video in Paris was a dream come true.
It's true that Paris is made up of equal parts of social conservatism and anarchic experimentation, but foreigners never quite know where to place the moral accent mark.
We were at the dark end of the L.A. punk scene, and that scene was full-on and violent and aggressive and wild and intense.